EPA awards grants for industrial cleanups

 (AP) —$2.3 million in federal funding will be used to to either clean up former industrial areas or redevelop those sites in part of Indiana

$400,000 is going to the Indiana Region 15 Planning Commission to regional planning commission is getting $400,000 to assess brownfields Crawford, Dubois, and Orange counties.

The largest of the Indiana grants announced Wednesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is $600,000 the Michigan City Sanitary District will use to assess industrial properties in the northwestern Indiana city.

Indianapolis, Jeffersonville and Richmond are each getting $300,000 to either assess and clean up contamination or redevelop cleaned-up sites.

The town of Clarksville will get $440,000 to prepare properties along the Ohio River for redevelopment.

 The EPA says the funding will advance cleanup projects, boost local economies and protect the public health.